This is just all over the place. There's stuff in here about Donald Trump, the Antichrist, the unwieldy New Hampshire legislature, True Scotsman evangelicals, terrorist groups, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Maya Angelou, and New Jersey governors both beloved and despised. Read more
The Obama administration's 2011 intervention in Libya wasn't about promoting democracy, or nation-building, peance and freeance, being greeted as liberators, purple fingers or painting schools. It was about Rwanda. Right or wrong, that was the thinking that shaped the decision and its execution. Read more
Phyllis Schlafly (still not dead) loves baseball the same way she loves America -- meaning she wants to destroy everything good about it by making it Whites Only. So let's make the spiteful old religious right icon even angrier by enjoying some highlight videos of Bartolo Colon swinging the bat. Read more
If there's one thing I have learned out there in the church, it's that a speaker should never humblebrag about himself by saying "This is not about me. ... It's about Jesus." Whenever you hear that, you can bet that the next good chunk of what he has to say won't be about Jesus either, but about him. Read more
The Donald Trump who blustered his way into the spotlight back in the 1980s was a different creature from the Donald Trump now favored to win a majority of Repubican delegates on Super Tuesday. That earlier version of Trump was, like the current one, a boorish blowhard with a flair for garish tackiness that he relentlessly insisted was "classy." But he hadn't yet become the demagogue we see today. Read more
This is a word you're not supposed to say on live TV or in front of the children, but it's spiking in use these days for the same reason that any word does: because of its precision and necessity. We are seeing something in our politics, exemplified in the juvenile free-for-all of this week's Republican presidential primary debate, and we need to identify it. This appropriately crude word lets us do that. Read more
"Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land! The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant." Read more
Trump gets two endorsements that won't help him and two opponents who won't hurt him. Plus: Several stories involving American men aiming guns at American women; the NABA defense of torture; and a plea to cast Adam Driver in a Joey Ramone biopic. Read more
This enthusiasm for apocalypse is theologically malodorous, but it is also politically dangerous. Here again are L&J and their 50 million readers cheering for entropy, celebrating calamity, wars and rumors of war as the confirmation of their desires, and railing against peace and progress as setbacks to this consummation for which they devoutly wish. They believe that things must fall apart and the center must not hold, because even now the beast is slouching toward Jerusalem. They want this to happen. Read more
The truly creepy bit here doesn't have anything to do with whatever secret rituals or whatnot these men engage in during the LARPing portions of their gatherings. The creepy part is what we know because they tell us: Some of the most powerful, wealthiest, whitest, Gentile males in the world regularly gather at luxury hunting lodges for a little bit of hunting and a whole lot of networking. Read more
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